HOBOKEN – A dead body of an adult male was found in the water on Tuesday morning near the Hoboken Terminal, authorities confirmed.

Hoboken Police Sgt. Sam Williams confirmed the report, but said that the investigation had turned over to both the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office and New Jersey Transit.

New Jersey Transit spokesperson Nancy Snyder said, “At approximately 10:10 a.m. the captain of a Waterway ferry radioed in that he spotted a body in the water. We recovered [the body] at the Hoboken Ferry Slip with the assistance of the FDNY and NYPD.”